CONTENTdm Field Properties Template
Prepared by Amélie Jaquet, MWDL intern
On behalf of the Metadata Task Force of the UALC Digitization Committee
August 2010
Revised May 2012
Most of the fields of these templates are conformed to the Mountain West Digital Library
Dublin Core Application Profile but some things are adapted to CONTENTdm.
The first version of the template contains only the basic elements of the Application
Profile and the second version contains the same elements but also the preservation
elements. MWDL Partners may choose which template version they prefer to use.
METADATA FIELDS IN CONTENTDM – V.1
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METADATA FIELDS IN CONTENTDM – V.2
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EXPLANATIONS
FIELDS ORDER:
Suggested order (v.1):
 Title and Alternative title (when a field has refinements, they are put just after).
 Intellectual property: Creator, Contributor and Publisher → all the authorities
are one after another and quickly visible on the record.
 Temporal and spatial data: Date, Temporal Coverage, Spatial Coverage
 Information about the content: Subject, Description, Table of Contents,
Abstract
We did not want to put these fields too early in the record because they are
sometimes very long, and then the fields coming after them are not easy to view
for the user.
 Information about the resource: Type, Genre, Format, Extent, Conversion
Specifications
 Others: Language, Rights, Relation, Is Part Of, Full Text, Identifier
On the second version, the preservation elements are added at the end of the record.
These fields are refinements of ‘Conversion Specifications’ so that field was moved to
place them all together.
FIELDS REQUIRED:
The fields required in the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile are:
 Date
 Description
 Format
 Identifier
 Rights
 Subject
 Title
 Type
According to the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile, some fields are ‘Mandatory if
applicable’:
 Conversion Specifications
 Creator
However, CONTENTdm does not have this function. Therefore, these fields are optional
but the partners should take care to fill them out.
All the others fields are optional.
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CONTROLLED VOCABULARY:
The MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile recommends schemes for some of the
fields.
Field
Contributor
Creator
Date
Format
Identifier
Language
Spatial coverage
Subject
Temporal coverage
Type
Scheme(s)
Library of Congress Name Authority File
Marc Relator Codes
Library of Congress Name Authority File
W3C Date Time Format profile of ISO 8601
Internet Media Type
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
ISO 639-3
Library of Congress Name Authority File
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
U.S. Geological Survey
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Medical Subject Heading
Library of Congress Subject Headings
DCMI Type Vocabulary
Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
The Metadata Task Force chose to enable the controlled vocabulary function in the field
properties only for the fields with a limited list of possible terms. Lists of controlled
vocabulary terms have been created for the Type field (DCMI Type Vocabulary) and the
Format field (including the most-often-used terms). An additional list has been created
for the Genre field and is posted at http://mwdl.org/guidelines.php.
The controlled vocabulary is set to “Yes” for the Type and Format fields in the template:
 Type → DCMI Type Vocabulary:
o Collection
o Dataset
o Event
o Image;MovingImage
o Image;StillImage
o InteractiveResource
o PhysicalObject
o Service
o Software
o Sound
o Text
 Format and masterFormat→ list of combinations selected from the IANA MIME
Media Types:
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o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
application/msword
application/pdf
application/vnd.ms-excel
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
audio/aiff*
audio/flac*
audio/mp4
audio/mpeg
audio/wav*
audio/wma*
audio/x-realaudio*
image/gif
image/jp2
image/jpeg
image/png
image/tiff
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
image/vnd.djvu
text/css
text/csv
text/plain
text/html
text/rtf
text/xml
video/avi*
video/mjp2*
video/mp4
video/mpeg
video/quicktime
video/wmv*
video/x-flv*
video/x-realvideo*
* MIME types not yet registered in the list of Internet Media Types
maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types.
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